My mind moves all the time. I'm always thinking about something. In an effort to separate my home time from my work time I have to ban myself from thinking about work while in the shower. I know, it sounds bizzare, but first thing in the morning I'm already thinking through the tasks I have to complete before the day is over.
 

So, this morning I was searching for things to occupy my mind while in the shower. I settled on the string of nasty high blood sugars I've had for the last several days. Perfect 5:30 a.m. topic, right? Washing, my hand ran over my infusion site. I considered its position on my abdomen. I seem to have the best absorption when my site is located within, say, a three to four inch radius of my belly button. Yes, exactly the area the pump information tells us to avoid.
 

I've been trying to expand my sites outward toward my hips and to utilize more of my abdomen, but it's so easy to go right back to those areas of good absorption after having three or four days of completely sucky numbers.
 

There are so many factors to consider, though: Thanksgiving and all the leftovers, did I hit a spot with too much scar tissue, is the cold I've been feeling coming on finally moving in, am I ovulating, ad nauseum.
 

Despite my overwhelming desire to go straight for a center-of-the-belly site when I get a new infusion set tomorrow, I will try to talk myself into continuing to move outward so I can hit that fatty tissue on my hips that will hopefully give me more real estate to work with.

Note: I wrote this on Tuesday. I followed my advice and continued with the expansion plan this morning when I changed my site. When I pulled the old site several hours later, way too much insulin seeped out. I often have a teeny bit of insulin seep out (which is why I leave my old site in for several hours), but this was quite a bit comparatively. So clearly something was wrong with that site. Confirming such: I've had great numbers so far today. Westward Ho!